EDF6225 CORE EXAMINATION ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Replication - ✔✔repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness
of the findings
✔✔parsimony - ✔✔considers the simplest , most logical explanation of a phenomenon
before more complex explanations are considered
✔✔3 major branches of behavior analysis - ✔✔Behaviorism
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
✔✔Experimental Analysis of Behavior - ✔✔natural science approach for discovering
orderly and reliable relations between behaviors and various types of environmental
variables of which it functions.
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - ✔✔established by Bear, Wolf, and Risley in 1968
with 7 guiding dimentions
,✔✔Radical Behaviorism - ✔✔Attempts to study all behavior, including private events,
such as thoughts/feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person
and species.
✔✔methodological behaviorism - ✔✔A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
✔✔The Behavior of Organisms - ✔✔- skinner describes some of his most important
research in ____
- describes experiments that demonstrated orderly and reliable relationships between
behavior and the environment
✔✔Applied dimension of ABA - ✔✔- Improving the socially significant behaviors of
people's lives
- Bear et al (1968) : applied research is constrained to examining behaviors which are
socially important (socially significant) rather than convenient for study
✔✔Behavioral dimension of ABA - ✔✔behaviors that are observable and measurable
✔✔Analytic dimension of ABA - ✔✔defines how we arrive to our decision as to whether
or not behavior change occurred as we predicted
✔✔technological dimension of ABA - ✔✔Defines procedures clearly and in detail so
they are replicable
✔✔Conceptually Systematic Dimension of ABA - ✔✔rely on behavioral procedures
derived from the research, not just random attempts to change behavior
✔✔Effective (Dimension of ABA) - ✔✔shows that the behavior we selected was
objectively measures and it demonstrated a reliable change
✔✔Generality (Dimension of ABA) - ✔✔- golden standard of ABA procedures
- when an intervention not only changes behavior in one setting with on person, but
maintains across other settings/people
✔✔positive reinforcement - ✔✔when a stimulus is added and future frequencies of
behavior maintain or increase
✔✔positive punishment - ✔✔when stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior
decrease
, ✔✔negative reinforcement - ✔✔when stimulus is removed and future frequencies of
behavior maintain or increase
✔✔negative punishment - ✔✔when stimulus is removed and future frequencies of
behavior decrease
✔✔Reinforcement Theory - ✔✔a functional theory
✔✔functional theories - ✔✔means all of its components are defined by their function
(how they work)
✔✔structural theories - ✔✔means all of its components are defined by their structure
(how they look)
✔✔positive reinforcement - ✔✔- a functional relation defined by a two-term contingency
- first, a response is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus
- then, as a result, a similar response occurs more frequently in the future
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔any stimulus change or event that functions to increase the likelihood
of the behavior that led to it
✔✔delay of reinforcement - ✔✔diminishes the intended effects of a stimulus because it
allows for another, unintended stimulus to happen prior to the intended stimulus
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔changes the function of antecedent stimulus
✔✔discriminative stimulus (Sd) - ✔✔- a stimulus that elicits a response after association
with reinforcement
- only signals the availability of a reinforcer / not the effectiveness of the reinforcer
- refrigerator is always there, it does not make you hungry, it only represents the
availability of the reinforcement of food
✔✔Motivating Operation (MO) - ✔✔- increases (EO) or decreases (AO) the current
effectiveness of a reinforcer
- does not signal the availability of a reinforcer
- preference/adverseness of skittles
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔the refrigerator may typically signal the availability of food and food
could be considered a _________ if you are hungry
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Replication - ✔✔repeating of experiments to determine the reliability and usefulness
of the findings
✔✔parsimony - ✔✔considers the simplest , most logical explanation of a phenomenon
before more complex explanations are considered
✔✔3 major branches of behavior analysis - ✔✔Behaviorism
Experimental Analysis of Behavior (EAB)
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
✔✔Experimental Analysis of Behavior - ✔✔natural science approach for discovering
orderly and reliable relations between behaviors and various types of environmental
variables of which it functions.
✔✔Behaviorism - ✔✔the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - ✔✔established by Bear, Wolf, and Risley in 1968
with 7 guiding dimentions
,✔✔Radical Behaviorism - ✔✔Attempts to study all behavior, including private events,
such as thoughts/feelings, in terms of controlling variables in the history of the person
and species.
✔✔methodological behaviorism - ✔✔A philosophical position that views behavioral
events that cannot be publicly observed as outside the realm of science.
✔✔The Behavior of Organisms - ✔✔- skinner describes some of his most important
research in ____
- describes experiments that demonstrated orderly and reliable relationships between
behavior and the environment
✔✔Applied dimension of ABA - ✔✔- Improving the socially significant behaviors of
people's lives
- Bear et al (1968) : applied research is constrained to examining behaviors which are
socially important (socially significant) rather than convenient for study
✔✔Behavioral dimension of ABA - ✔✔behaviors that are observable and measurable
✔✔Analytic dimension of ABA - ✔✔defines how we arrive to our decision as to whether
or not behavior change occurred as we predicted
✔✔technological dimension of ABA - ✔✔Defines procedures clearly and in detail so
they are replicable
✔✔Conceptually Systematic Dimension of ABA - ✔✔rely on behavioral procedures
derived from the research, not just random attempts to change behavior
✔✔Effective (Dimension of ABA) - ✔✔shows that the behavior we selected was
objectively measures and it demonstrated a reliable change
✔✔Generality (Dimension of ABA) - ✔✔- golden standard of ABA procedures
- when an intervention not only changes behavior in one setting with on person, but
maintains across other settings/people
✔✔positive reinforcement - ✔✔when a stimulus is added and future frequencies of
behavior maintain or increase
✔✔positive punishment - ✔✔when stimulus is added and future frequencies of behavior
decrease
, ✔✔negative reinforcement - ✔✔when stimulus is removed and future frequencies of
behavior maintain or increase
✔✔negative punishment - ✔✔when stimulus is removed and future frequencies of
behavior decrease
✔✔Reinforcement Theory - ✔✔a functional theory
✔✔functional theories - ✔✔means all of its components are defined by their function
(how they work)
✔✔structural theories - ✔✔means all of its components are defined by their structure
(how they look)
✔✔positive reinforcement - ✔✔- a functional relation defined by a two-term contingency
- first, a response is followed immediately by the presentation of a stimulus
- then, as a result, a similar response occurs more frequently in the future
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔any stimulus change or event that functions to increase the likelihood
of the behavior that led to it
✔✔delay of reinforcement - ✔✔diminishes the intended effects of a stimulus because it
allows for another, unintended stimulus to happen prior to the intended stimulus
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔changes the function of antecedent stimulus
✔✔discriminative stimulus (Sd) - ✔✔- a stimulus that elicits a response after association
with reinforcement
- only signals the availability of a reinforcer / not the effectiveness of the reinforcer
- refrigerator is always there, it does not make you hungry, it only represents the
availability of the reinforcement of food
✔✔Motivating Operation (MO) - ✔✔- increases (EO) or decreases (AO) the current
effectiveness of a reinforcer
- does not signal the availability of a reinforcer
- preference/adverseness of skittles
✔✔reinforcer - ✔✔the refrigerator may typically signal the availability of food and food
could be considered a _________ if you are hungry
